Yoga in Transition: Exploring the Rise of Yoga in Peacebuilding

This article draws connections between the complexities of modern postural yoga practices and global peacebuilding efforts, exploring both tensions and possibilities. First, the article engages key yogic texts--such as Patanjali's Yogasastra, which demonstrates how yoga is historically rooted i...

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1. VerfasserIn: Lefurgey, Mayme (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox 2017
In: Religions of South Asia
Jahr: 2017, Band: 11, Heft: 2/3, Seiten: 254-273
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Patañjali, Philosoph, Yogasūtra / Yoga / Moderne / Friedensbemühung
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
BK Hinduismus, Jainismus, Sikhismus
NCD Politische Ethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Yogaśāstra
B elicitive peacebuilding
B Peacebuilding
B modern postural yoga
B transrational peace studies
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Zusammenfassung:This article draws connections between the complexities of modern postural yoga practices and global peacebuilding efforts, exploring both tensions and possibilities. First, the article engages key yogic texts--such as Patanjali's Yogasastra, which demonstrates how yoga is historically rooted in social justice work and peacebuilding--in order to link yoga philosophy and peacebuilding theories. This is followed by an analysis of contemporary practice-based examples, which consider the theoretical tools of elicitive peacework and transrational peace research. Through an exploration of yoga as elicitive peacebuilding and conflict transformation, this article considers if yoga has the potential to shift societal notions of peacebuilding and questions the implications of this for peace theory and practice.
ISSN:1751-2697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions of South Asia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/rosa.37026